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Tabbed browsing in IE 6

2005-09-01 — klo2k

For those of you who don’t like the MSN toolbar (including me), here’s a nice program that will add that capability to IE. (For those of you who are interested, I came across this program from reading slashdot’s RSS feed.)

The program I’m talking about is called Foxie (or Foxie Suite) – it’s actually a collection of utilities to make MSIE more Firefox like, hence the tabbed browsing feature.

However, I must point out this program is relatively new and there are still some minor glitches that needs to be sorted out – for example, the search engine is non-configurable (set to ask.com by default), tabs can’t be re-arranged, doesn’t support XP themes, no GUI for editing the adblock list etc… Nevertheless, those are only small glitches and I expect the program to receive more enhancements as development goes on.

Anyway, if you want tabbed browsing for IE, I think you should definitely give this program a try.

(Now, remember what I said about the search engine being non-configurable? That’s not strictly true… Read on.)

You can actually hack this program to use the Google search engine, but this requires a quick edit to "foxietoolbar.dll".

Here’s how you can do it:

(0 – As usual, backup everything before starting .)

1 – Open "foxietoolbar.dll" in the hex editor of your choice.

2 – Replace the string at offset 0x0003398C from:

h.t.t.p.:././.w.e.b…a.s.k…c.o.m./.w.e.b.?.q.=.%.s.&.o.=.1.0.3.6.4

to

h.t.t.p.:././.w.w.w…g.o.o.g.l.e…c.o.m./.s.e.a.r.c.h.?.&.q.=.%.s..

(Note "." represent NULLs (and "dots") in their correct places.)

(Note this hack only replaces the main web search (i.e. typing a search query into the search box and pressing Enter). The other ones can probably be done using a similar method to above.)

this fix doest work because:1 the line is incorect2 it doesnt replace the search bar to google in the result effect…BUT:some lines after 03398C there is the line to replace and once you do that at least i got rid of the shitty ask.com toolbar.So thanks anyway…